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The NAMES Project Foundation (NPF) today announced that the National AIDS Memorial will become the new caretaker of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and NAMES Project programs. As part of the transition, the NAMES Project and the National AIDS Memorial have agreed to jointly gift care and stewardship of The Quilt’s archival collections to the prestigious American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, making this collection available through the world’s largest public library.This historic decision will return The Quilt to the San Francisco Bay Area, where 32 years ago during the height of the AIDS epidemic, a group of strangers gathered at a San Francisco storefront to remember the names and lives of their loved ones they feared history would forget – and with that seemingly simple act
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AIDS Memorial Quilt Once Again to Be Displayed in Person - POZ
35 Years since its first panels were stitched, The AIDS Memorial Quilt remains a powerful teaching tool for health action, remembrance and social justice
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How the AIDS Quilt Allowed Millions to Memorialize the Epidemic
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Former Site of the NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt – The #TUOR Project
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Summer display of AIDS Memorial Quilt largest ever in SF
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AIDS Memorial Quilt panels arrive home in SF in time for World AIDS Day
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AIDS Memorial Quilt Heading Home To San Francisco - CBS San Francisco
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt will head home to San Francisco, 32 years later
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Photos from AIDS Memorial Quilt 35th anniversary display in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
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AIDS Quilt moving to San Francisco
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